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Search results for "concussion" ...
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HBO: NCAA Head Games
Five years into football’s concussions crisis, one group of athletes may be in more danger than any other: college football players. That’s because while leagues from the NFL down to Pop Warner have sharply reduced contact in practice to limit the amount of hits to the head, the NCAA has yet to mandate any rules. A six-month Real Sports investigation found that, over the course of a year, the average college football player is exposed to 70% more hits to the head than an NFL player. All these hits can add up and make it harder for the brain to function and do the work of being a student. In other words, young men going to college purportedly to improve their minds are often doing precisely the opposite—they are damaging them. Once these athletes leave college they’re on their own to deal with the potential consequences. The NFL provides long-term medical care for its football players. The NCAA does not.
Tags: broadcast; college football; athletes; concussions; health; NFL; NCAA; medical care
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Concussion Crisis
The stories examine the seriousness of concussions among athletes in youth and professional sports. Safety inadequacies in hundreds of thousands of football helmets have led to brain trauma and more.
Tags: football; football helmets; NFL; brain damage; Lou Gehrig's
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Brain Wars: How the Military is Failing Its Wounded
The series uncovers a pattern of broken promises and ignored problems within the medical system for America's soldiers and veterans. Despite the hundreds of thousands of soldiers suffering from serious brain injuries, the military has continued to fail to diagnose and treat their injuries. In some cases, brain injuries were dismissed as headaches.
Tags: brain injury; veterans; military; military hospital; concussions
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The Concussion Crisis
An examination of "the growing problem of concussions in football, among high school through professional players, from a medical and psychological standpoint."
Tags: football; injuries; head; concussions; safety equipment; helmets; treatment; medical; public health
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NHL Headache
Players in the National Hockey League have been in danger of concussions and other health hazards that can reult in serious neurological problems. From the '96-97 season through the '06-07 year, there were 5,500 missed games wand cost teams millions of dollars in salaries to players who weren't on the ice.
Tags: todd bertuzzi; nhlpa; trevor letowski; anaheim ducks; brian burke
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Danger Zone
"High school football players suffer concussions more frequently than adults; their concussions can be much more severe than adult concussions, too. Misperceptions about concussions abound among youths and adults."
Tags: sports; health; injuries; head injuries; concussion; high school; football
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Big Headache; Doctor Yes
This two part investigation examines the National Football League protocol for dealing with concussions. The articles discuss equipment that can dramatically lower chances of getting a concussion, but is not required by the NFL. It also discusses the NFL mentality that makes heroes out of players who play while injured.
Tags: sports; professional athletes; heatlh; head trauma; doctors; sports medicine; sports equipment
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Command Mistake
As a result of this WISH-TV (Indianapolis, IN) report, the United States Marine Corps is now issuing helmets with ballistic padding to all marines. Previously, only the Army was issuing padded helmets; and some marines were buying their own padding. The story showed that college football players' helmets were more protective than the marine helmet."The cost to care for a head-injured soldier with permanent brain damage is $2.5 to $3 million. The cost of the helmet pads is as little as $30." Story contains on-ground elements filmed in Germany and Iraq.
Tags: Traumatic brain injury research; TBI; concussion; ballistic pad testing; football helmet testing; Kevlar helmet; roadside bomb blasts; Commanding General George Casey; Baghdad; Fallujah; Landstuhl Medical Center, Germany; Riddell; Brigadier General John Kelley; Congressman Steve Buyer; Indiana National Guard; Roudebush VA Medical Center; craniectomy; aphasia; Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz; Joint Theater Trauma Registry; Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center; DVBIC; Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital; Traumatic Brain Injury in the War Zone; Susan Okie, MD; New England Journal of Medicine; American Football Coaches Association; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Sports Medicine Concussion Program
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Fatalities infrequent but devastating
USA Today examines the topic of heart-related athlete deaths and youths dying on high school football fields.
Tags: high school football; athlete deaths; CPR; cardiac concussion; heart arrhythmias
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Accident Watch: What Disney Doesn't Want You to Know
An ongoing Web reporting project collects injury/accident/ incident reports at theme parks in the United States. In a message posted on the website of Theme Park Insider editor Robert Niles reveals that there is a gap between the types of injuries that theme parks must report and those that they don't need to under the law. The unreported injuries include broken arms, sprained ankles, concussions and lacerations requiring stitches, the story reports. The online project "seeks to educate consumers about theme park safety, and provide them the information they to need to stay safe while visiting a park."
Tags: safety; Walt Disney World; injuries; Universal Orlando; hospitals; Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)